AMAUYLLIDACEiE. 157 



so^inents. Stamens fi, inserted in two rows in the perianth tube 

 below the crown and wholly within it ; filaments free or adnate to the 

 ^xn-ianth tube, but not to the crown ; anthers affixed by the back a 

 little above the base on the inner side, opening by longitudinal slits. 

 Ovary adhering to the tube of the perianth, green, elliptical-ovoid, 

 trigonous ; style elongate-fihform ; stigma obtuse, undivided. Capsule 

 obovate-ovoid, subherbaceous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds rather 

 few, subglobose, with a smooth testa, which becomes rough when they 

 are dried. 



Herbs with tunicated bulbs and radical linear-lorate, or linear and 

 channelled or semicylindrical green or glaucous leaves, which are often 

 slightly twisted. Scapes generally ancipitate, terminated by a mem- 

 branous spathe, enclosing several umbellate horizontal or ascending 

 or drooping flowers, or a single horizontal or drooping or pendulous 

 or rarely erect flower. Flowers large, white or yellow, or white with 

 a yellow crown, the latter sometimes with a red margin. 



The name of this genus has a mythological origin, and was so called after the self- 

 enamoured youth Narcissus, who was changed into this flower. 



Section I. — AJAX. Hmcorth. 



Spathe 1-flowered. Flower shortly pedicellate. Free portion of the 

 perianth tube funnelshaped ; perianth segments broad. Crown tubular, 

 as long as or a little longer than the perianth segments. Stamens 

 and style straight, the former inserted at the base of the perianth tube, 

 and free from it. 



SPECIES I.-NARCISSUS PSEUDO-NARCISSUS. Linn. 



Plate MDI. 



Bekh. lo. n. Germ, et Helv. Vol. IX. Tab. CCCLXTX. Kg. 816. 

 BUM, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 468. 



Ajax Pseudo-narcissus, Haworth. Kunth, Enum. PI. Vol. V. p. 708. Pari. Fl. Ital. 

 Vol. lU. p. 107. 



Leaves linear-lorate, scarcely tapering towards the apex, nearly 

 flat, more or less glaucous. Scape about as long as the leaves when 

 in flower. Flower solitary, inclined or horizontal. Pedicel shorter 

 than the ovary. Perianth segments ascending-spreading, oblong- 

 ovate or -lanceolate, subacute, a little longer than the free portion of 

 the perianth-tube, which is cylindrical-funnelshaped. Crown tubular- 

 cylindrical or sUghtly trumpet-mouthed, very slightly plaited towards 

 the apex; the margin continuous or 6-cleft or 6-lobed and crenatc- 

 serrate. 



